I seen a little bit of the streams, and I suspect the experimental branch will be accessible Monday based on the level of bugs I have seen. One of the bugs I have seen is that some of the new buildings are slightly unstable. But the can be part of the immersion. ;>
This video goes over some of the new vehicles, slight weapons modifications, and some building blocks and some other changes
Whelp we’re on experimental now. My group tiny group couldn’t wait and whoa… the performance is noticeable. I’m hosting and dear god the delay between when you enter an area and then the zombies show up. I thought I was just not waiting long enough or maybe missing things but the zombies were actually dropping on top of me. I’ve seen others comment on it so it wasn’t just me… also, dogs everywhere. I really don’t like that.
Yeah, I would not be bold enough to try this branch online. Easy setup for heartbreak until they get the kinks out.
I have been doing some single player in Navagene, and it took me a while to get the rhythm of using bandages to replenish health max, then replenishing stamina/health with food. Always bandage before eating evidently.
Still struggling through the perk trees, but I think they actually flow decently. It is actually good to not have to loot zombies, and when they do drop a bag it is really good for you, especially early in the game. The way experience works now killing Zs is the best way to advance quickly.
Killing zombies using the big hit via melee seems pretty easy. I am sure on the server this is troublesome as lag would screw up your timing, but definitely in SP the level 1 wooden club is effective, as is the iron reinforce. Specing those perks help as well. I do not understand the “melee is hard” crowd, except to figure they are running online - and the bow is probably better online.
The Z AI is better, these changes are long over due. It still needs more variety though, as wandering hoards all make a conga line for you and this makes for an efficient XP farm. They really need to spread out in these cases. But digging down, jumping, climbing, destroying is better. Spiders can leap like a frog now, and at quite a distance. Really dangerous.
The POIs are definitely more challenging. I am beginning to loath the light technique to guide you linearly though every one. ruins the immersion. This should have been used sparingly. Some of these really need to just be buildings with self discovery instead of ‘let’s play Half-Life’…
It wasn’t my idea. My small team wanted to do it so I consented. I try to be flexible, but man the noises and the fact they eat through bricks now… it’s like I said, a group wanted it harder to so it feels like they changed everything. I think we just wanted a slight uptick and options… but of course they did this.
I was trying to figure that out myself. I don’t have a lot of chances to do either though… if I get caught I am usually just dead cause it’s a lot of them and the freaking wolves and dogs!
I miss doing really effective headshots so yeah clubbing it up these days too.
Do you mean the eyeball thing? I preferred they either see me or they don’t but in MP it doesn’t matter. If one of our group is hopping around like a monkey well they’ll tear the base from under us in no time. Some of the mechanics just don’t make sense
A recipe for boiling an egg, grilling… come on. These are not two year old scavengers and even cave men figure this stuff out. You don’t need to be trained in order to eat. Schematics seem to be asking for perks that are not actually there… can’t use them. Flesh and blood, even zombies, pushing through a brick wall, solo.
I butchered these fairly simple tasks in my neophyte days. Do not underestimate the ability of young men to kill perfectly good food. Even boiling water recipe is … somewhat reasonable :)
Heh, technically I guess it’s a perk maybe not a recipe, but still!
I bet if you had zombies hunting you and you somehow survived some sort of mass destruction of the human race you would be one of the ones to have figured how to eat an egg.
So what did you do anyway, stick an egg in a microwave and watch it explode?
I was/am a nerd, not a jock, jeezus.
No, it was more along the lines of “hard boiled =/= poached” and “are egg yolks supposed to be this grey and crumbly?”
You told me not to underestimate!
The eyeball thing is the percentage you will be seen by a zombie near you while you are sneaking. 0 being low chance. That’s why when you do stuff in the crouch it goes up.
Regarding the lights, I was talking about the buildings. Almost every building it seems now has lights “pointing the way” that you are intended to travel through the structure. Like the way things were in A16 with the towers (torch by a door or hole), except a great deal more now.
Emphasis, mine.
A17 b238
We don’t want incompatibility bugs with previous builds so please remember to start a new game with each experimental update.
Added
Changed
Boiled eggs do not need master chef cook to make
Fixed
Ugh. Another restart…
Also, seems like they changed the level-up/perk system again by removing the level gate from perks and increased the cost of attributes based on a scale like 1-3 = 1 pt, 4-6 = 2 pts, 7 = 3, and so on… Frankly, I preferred the old “usage” system but we’ll see how this goes.
I am kind of sick of the constant updates too but it is the unstable version, beta, whatever they call it. If you’re on the other build you can update less often … but I want vehicles!
It’s out on the main build now for everyone!
I haven’t played this since early alpha. Can you play this on your own map alone?
Yes. You can play it just like most survival games running solo client. Its alot like playing Minecraft solo but w/ Zombies and a sorta 7day tower defense mode…but without the follow thru of most tower defense though…
There are better games for solo, having sad that, they’ve added a lot and made it harder. If you enjoyed it before, I don’t see why you wouldn’t enjoy now too.
Could you name a few of the better games for solo so I can check them out too? :)
Subnautica. No zombies, but a much more polished and cohesive solo survival/builder experience.
I don’t really do a lot of survival games because I don’t enjoy them alone, but some of the others have stories and things like endings. 7 Days, you just play til you die. There is nothing compelling you forward.
I heard The Forest, the Long Dark, Subnautica are good.Don’t Starve (I’ve played MP and SP on that one).
I think 7 Days is great for what it is. Don’t get me wrong there. I’ve been playing it off and on for a few years now. I jut think if someone asked for an SP game in the survival flavor, I’m not sure I would recommend it. I might say they could join our sporadic group but boy not only did some zombie spawn in a starter home, my start home! (they need to fix that), we were supposed to play last night and 2.5 hours later a toddler too excited for Christmas to go to sleep thrawted that attempt. heh.
I’m just saying that 7 Days is just a build and fight until you die game. Sure they added dungeons and vehicles and too many freaking vultures, but I’ve heard some of the other SP focused ones sprinkle in maybe a little more discovery or even a story of some sort.
I have all those. just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything :)